Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams opened up Brooklyn Borough Hall for the 13th annual Brooklyn Book Festival on September 16th 2018 as nearly 300 national and international authors took to various
throughout. The Festival is free to the public and the Borough Hall Court Room and Media Room hosted several events and authors.
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Courtroom- 3pm
2018 Book Festival-- Best of Brooklyn: N.K. Jemisin in Conversation
Three time Hugo winner for Best Novel, N.K. Jemisin is also first author to have every book in a series, the Broken Earth trilogy, win the prize. She is this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival 2018 BoBi honoree and will joined in conversation by speculative fiction writer P. Djèlí Clark, author of The Black God’s Drums. Introduced by Johnny Temple, Chair, Brooklyn Literary Council..
N.K. Jemisin-
N. K. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for both The Obelisk Gate and The Fifth Season, her most recent novel, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, and RT Reviewers' Choice awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. awards. She is a science fiction and fantasy reviewer for the New York Times.